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Old 03-27-07, 07:57 PM
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Default 2008 Subaru WRX Official Pics (2010 sedan gets widebody from Sti)

Taken from the cover of the May issue of MotorTrend (another embargo breached )





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Old 03-27-07, 08:04 PM
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looks kia-ish?
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Old 03-27-07, 08:16 PM
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Looks like a Mazda 3 on the side with the rear of a RX 330\350 and the front end of a new Sebring.
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Old 03-27-07, 08:26 PM
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That is truly grotesque... I thought they fired the Tribeca designer.
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Old 03-27-07, 09:56 PM
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Getting more and more ugly as the years go on. 02-03 were the best years.
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Old 03-27-07, 10:18 PM
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1-series (side) meets corolla runX, meets subaru

That thing has got no alibi
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wtf? this thing is fugly. they should have kept it like the concept pictures. i dont know why but that looks like a ford grill.
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Old 03-27-07, 11:55 PM
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Please tell me that is a Europe-only model
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Old 03-27-07, 11:57 PM
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it's a KIA!!!!
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You've got to be kidding me with this one!

Hyundai and Kia new hatches look ten thousand times hotter than this thing with altezza taillights
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I like it!
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Looks ok kinda like a Kia spectra 5. Inside looks good though.
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This ****** has to be photoshoped! No way they destroyed the WRX like that. I call BS on this. NOOOOO WAY!
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Originally Posted by lexmenow
This ****** has to be photoshoped! No way they destroyed the WRX like that. I call BS on this. NOOOOO WAY!
Straight from a magazine with official pictures. Sucks I know.
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Originally Posted by Koma
Straight from a magazine with official pictures. Sucks I know.
Well dammit then bye bye WRX you will be missed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Let us welcome the champion of the rice rocket
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